Thurman P. Woodfork and Friends

WEEPING ROBINS TRILOGY

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A ROBIN WEEP?

The photographs below, taken in the Ukraine, show how a bird tries desperately to save his partner. When these pictures were printed in a newspaper, millions were touched.

Here his wife is injured and the condition is very appalling

Here he brings her food and attends to her with love and compassion

He brings her food but realizes she has died after he tries to move her

Here he cries with adoring love

He stands beside her and screams, saddened of her death

Finally he becomes aware that she would not return to him, and stands beside her body in deep sorrowThe song said don’t stop thinking about tomorrow,
tomorrow will be better than before; yesterday’s
gone, yesterday’s gone. If the singers only knew
that yesterday will never go away… yesterday
can never go away.

The song asked if you ever saw a robin weep when
leaves begin to die, and said that means he’s lost
the will to live. I ask if you ever saw your friends
die and if you did, do the tears ever stop falling; do
you retain the will to live?

I’m so lonesome I could cry.

I remember a young Montagnard soldier and I
shooting small stones at passing ground leeches,
laughing happily together, enjoying our deep
friendship. Then, I remember later in the same day –
when he pushed me to the ground and took the bullet
meant for me.